On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Walter Bender wrote: > Curious as to what occasions need root access within X Windows? Maybe > the console is enough?
if the console font has been changed to something more readable it can be used. there end up being a surprising number of things where advanced users end up needing to tweak the system. not having to switch out of X to do it can be handy (this matters a bit less then usual currently due to forcing everything to be full screen) David Lang > -walter > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> One of our present security difficulties is that the Terminal activity >> is not isolated. It is de-isolated so that it can serve the dual role of >> root terminal and 'general exploration' terminal. Perhaps reviving the >> Quake Terminal for the root-terminal role and isolating the Terminal >> activity proper would be a nice way to solve half of our security issue? >> >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel